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Combines six well-known books by George W Bridgman, a celebrated artist and lecturer, who taught figure and anatomy drawing for many years at New York City's Art Students League. This title features Bridgman's lessons and original sketches.

Many art students and professionals have mastered the art of depicting unclothed figures, but still have trouble accurately rendering clothing or other forms of draped cloth. Part of the problem--before this book came along--was that there was a lack of concise and simple instruction on the subject, and much that was written was too vague to be helpful. This comprehensive, well-illustrated book was created to solve the problem.In these pages George Bridgman--a longtime instructor at New York's Art Student League and one of the nation's foremost teachers of figure drawing--offers expert advice on depicting draped figures. Clothing is none other than a drapery arranged around a body that is beneath it. To express the multitudinous forms it takes, one should learn to express in a direct way the different characters of folds, for each one plays its individual part as distinctly apart as actors play their different characters upon the stage.Students learn the characteristics of seven different kinds of folds and how to render them, including pipe, zigzag, spiral, half-lock, diaper pattern, drop, and inert folds. Mastery of these principles is the key to realistic portrayal of garments, as well as the proper rendering of cloth in still lifes. The straightforward, easy-to-follow text is illustrated by 200 of Bridgman's own sketches and diagrams, reproduced from pencil renderings in crisp halftones. Art students, teachers, and professionals alike are sure to welcome this inexpensive republication of a practical, hands-on manual by a master of figure drawing.Dover (2001) unabridged republication of The Seven Laws of Folds, originally published by Bridgman Publishers, Inc., Pelham, New York, 1942.

En el libro de "Anatomía Constructiva", Bridgman desarrolla y enseña su método para el dibujo de la figura humana a partir del uso de "cajas".El ojo percibe los contornos, los planos y los volúmenes. Bridgman argumenta que en el dibujo la línea es lo primero. Pero antes que el dibujo, precede una construcción mental donde el concepto de volumen viene primero, luego el plano y finalmente la línea. Las diferentes partes del cuerpo pueden abstraerse en simples formas geométricas. Para entender mejor los volúmenes, el movimiento y las luces, Bridgman recomienda utilizar formas cúbicas o de cuña, en vez de formas redondeadas o cilíndricas. En las partes articuladas cada una acopla con la siguiente a manera de ganchos, cuñas o engranajes. Quiere aprender a dibujar correctamente la figura humana? Este libro te da todos los elementos básicos para lograr una construcción sólida, a través de la comprensión de los volúmenes del cuerpo y la geometrización de la anatomía. La simple acción de copiar las bellas ilustraciones de este libro lo convertirán en un mejor dibujante. Anatomía Constructiva es un libro para todo aquel que quiera mejorar su dibujo de anatomía y una imprescindible referencia para profesores y dibujantes profesionales. Contiene cientos de dibujos que cubren la estructura ósea y muscular: cabeza, manos, brazos, torso y piernas analizadas en detalle. Un enfoque directo y efectivo, tratado con simpleza y entusiasmo.

"Constructive Anatomy" is George B. Bridgman's excellent book of anatomical drawing instruction. Ideal for beginning to intermediate artists, "Constructive Anatomy" begins with instruction on drawing hands and works its way through the human body giving detailed instruction on how to draw realistic human figures. Bridgman's drawing methodology builds upon the analysis of human anatomy, how the skeleton fits together, and how muscle sits upon the skeleton to create the human form. Once an artist comprehends the anatomical construction of the human body great confidence can be gained in realistically depicting the human body. With consideration to three dimensional perspective and how figures look as they move through space "Constructive Anatomy" provides a foundation for life drawing that the aspiring artist can build upon throughout their artistic life.

What is the difference between art anatomy and Bridgman's concept of the human machine? The human machine is the body as not only a fixed framework but also as a complex work of art which moves and was designed to move. In over 400 drawings, George B. Bridgman demonstrates the machine through the presentations which made him a gifted lecturer and teacher in his nearly fifty years at the Art Students League in New York and which gave life to drawings by his many students during those years. All skeletal and muscular systems are fully identified, and all are shown in front, back, and side views.The Human Machine begins with the framework of bones. In each section (head, neck, hand, arm, forearm, elbow, trunk, shoulder, back, scapular region, pelvis, hip, thigh, leg, knee, foot, and toe as well as the combinations of the major sections working together), George Bridgman starts with the skeletal components of the system; then he adds the muscles, shows the changes in the muscles as the body moves and, finally, shows the appearance of the bodily section in action. At the title implies, Bridgman, throughout, supplements his anatomical work with comparative drawings of simple machines. The anatomical approach to figure drawing is the foundation for the study of human form, and as in his other books on figure drawing, Bridgman's Life Drawing and The Book of a Hundred Hands, Bridgman's approach to the subject is important and unique. The Human Machine will give students and serious artists the conception of the human structure as the complex of beautiful machines it is, and will show how bone and muscle structures are solely responsible for our movements and for the shapes which we, at various times, display. Unabridged republication of the 1939 edition.